Coffee biggin



Aug. 17 1926.

s. G. RoussEAs COFFEE BIGGIN Filed Feb.,

INVENTOR ,Sarmg is G Rous'yeas TTORNEQY-S l l I i II III I Patented Aug. 17, 1926.

SARANTIS G. 'ROUSSEAS, OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

COFFEE IBIGGIN.

Application filed February 5, 1926.

This invention relates essentially to a biggin made of inexpensive material, suitable for suspending into an urn, and having a plurality of sacks for holding the, ground coffee over which the boiling water is poured into the urn.

An object of the invention is to provide a biggin which can be conveniently .placed on the upper rim of the urn and the sacks being somewhat shallow will be suspended slightly above the level of the boiling liquid in the urn.

Another object of the invention is to construct the biggin of a circular wire and to fasten the sacks to the wire so that the fabric of the sacks will cover the wire thus preventing contact of the metal with the coffee.

Another object of the invention is to provide a wire handle for lifting the biggin from the urn and the handle is made to be swung over after the biggin is mounted on the urn so that it will not interfere with a cover made to close the urn.

The invention comprehends a method of sewing the mouth of a large bag to the annular wire, then gathering dependent portions of the bag and sewing the gathered portions to transverse tapes fastened to the wire thereby forming a number of shallow sacks suspended inside of the Wire.

The novel features of the invention are more fully described in the following specification and claims, reference being made to the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 represents a vertical section taken along the line 1 1 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a vertical detail section-taken along the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a similar section taken along the line l 4- of Fig. 2.

In the drawing is shown a biggin including an annular wire member 5 suit-able for supporting a number of sacks or bags 6 sus pended from the member and forming compartments to receive the coffee. The sacks are preferably made of a. reticulatedfabric such as cheese-cloth to permit the steam and water to freely pass through its interstices. The fabric is secured to the wire member by turning its perimeter over the wire as indicated in Fig. 1 and sewing at 7 around the border. This mode of fastening the sacks Serial No. 86,144.

completely covers the wire so that none of the metal comes into contact with the coffee.

There are four compartments shown to hold the coffee and each compartment is divided from the other by gathering the fabric and sewing at 8 to superimposed tape members 9 the ends of which are sewedor looped at 10 about the annular member. The tape members by being stretched across the inside of the wire will prevent sag of the sacks and at the same time furnish a simple fastening device for the inner walls of the sacks indicated in Figs. 3 and 4c.

A wire handle ll'can be grasped when it is desired to placethe biggin on the upper part of the urn. The handle has a vertical stem 12 preferably twisted and it has bail members 1 f bent at divergent angles to the handle. The: bail is enclosed by a strip of fabric 15 secured by the stitches 8 to the sack or the tape 9 under it as shown in Fig. 4. It will thus be seen, that with the exception of the extended vertical portion of the handle all the metal parts are covered by the fabric. The bail is loosely encased in the strip, in other words it can freely turn on its axis, so that the handle can be turned over to lie flat on top of the sacks as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The biggin is constructed by draping the mouth of a comparatively large bag over the annular wire, then lifting portions of the bottom to. contact with the undersides of the tapes and sewing along the tapes to form the inner walls of the compartments. This mode of construction reduces the depth of the bag so that when the biggin is set onto the urn the sacks will be continuously acted on by the ebullition of the liquid in the urn.

I claim 1. A coffee biggin comprising a circular wire, transverse tapes secured to thewire, and a plurali y of sacks having their outer walls secured to the wire and the inner walls fastened to the tapes. 2. A coffee biggin comprising a circular wire, transverse and crossed tapes secured to the wire, and a plurality of sacks having their outer walls secured to the wire and the inner walls fastened to the'tapes, means secured to the tapes for lifting the biggin from the urn.

3QA coffee biggin comprising a circular wire, transverse tapes secured to the wire.

and a plurality of sacks formecl of gathered textile material having their outer Walls secured to the Wire and the inner Walls 1 38- tened to the tapes.

t. A coil'ee biggin formed of textile ma terial comprising a pluralityof sacks haw ing inner and outer walls and trzzns'verse tapes secured to the sacks.

A coffee biggin formed of textile terial comprising a plurality of sacks having inner and outer Walls transverse crossed tapes, each sack gathered at its inner Wall and secured to the transverse crossed tapes.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto se my hand.

SARANTIS G. ROUSSEAS. 

